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I won't repeat it all here: "Application Default Credentials provide a simple way to get authorization credentials for use calling Google APIs." If you can use Application Default Credentials, do. There is an extra step you will need to perform the before first using Application Default ...

Once you become familiar with the code to call one method on one Google service, you will be able to infer how to call any method on any Google service. First, we make a connection to the service using the credential object instantiated in the previous example: service = build( SERVICE_NAME, ...

You will need to be able to run Python. Python is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. I recommend pip and virtualenv. Pip is the recommend tool for installing Python packages. The Google Cloud API Libraries are available as pip packages. A Virtual Environment (aka "virtualenv")...